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#Cyberculture agenda: Obama pardons Chelsea Manning and Stuxnet leak source James Cartwright while Snowden never filed paperwork requesting a pardon…

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Obama just freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning The Next Web by Bryan Clark   President Obama just effectively freed Chelsea Manning from the 32 remaining years in her jail sentence, according to the New York Times. While it’s not a presidential pardon, the commutation of Manning’s sentence will see her go free in just five months. Chelsea Manning to … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “EU’s Galileo satellite system goes live after 17 years

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EU’s Galileo satellite system goes live after 17 years  BBC News | Europe | World Edition   Europe launches its long-delayed Galileo satellite system, aiming to be the world’s most accurate. Romania: a social democratic anomaly in eastern Europe? open Democracy News Analysis – by Cornel Ban   Romania should be the ideal playground for right-populist parties, … Read more

Anthro roundup: “Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?…

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Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?  Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology   This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons #AnthroForward Post-Election Resources American Anthropological Association by Anne Kelsey   On December 7th the AAA asked our members to join us in a live … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Austria elections disrupts the global right-wing tide, While Italy referendum vote leads to Renzi’s resignation…

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Austria election: Van der Bellen promises to be “pro-European” president BBC News | Europe | World Edition Newly-elected Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen promises to be “pro-European” and open-minded. [Analysis] Austrian far-right beaten but not defeated EUobserver.com – Headline News Far-right candidate Norbert Hofer’s loss to Green-backed Alexander Van der Bellen sent relief across Europe, but … Read more

#DigitalDiplomacy a la Turca: “Ankara voices ‘disappointment’ to Swedish envoy over age of consent tweet…

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Ankara voices ‘disappointment’ to Swedish envoy over age of consent tweet The Foreign Ministry has summoned Sweden’s chargé d’affaires in Turkey, upon a claim from Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom that Turkey had legalized sex with underage children Chemical castration of sex offenders in Turkey condemned by women’s groups  World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch … Read more

#TurkeyCoup aftermath: Turkey in rhetorical fight with the West, particularly US, Austria and Italy…

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Turks Can Agree on One Thing: U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup  NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO and CEYLAN YEGINSU Turks of all stripes believe the United States was involved in the coup attempt, especially because the cleric suspected of leading it lives in Pennsylvania. Austria is capital of radical racism, says Turkish foreign minister  World … Read more

#Brexit roundup: “Merkel says ‘no need to be nasty’ in leaving talks…

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Brexit: Six key questions after Britain’s vote to exit the EU  BBC News | Europe | World Edition When will it happen? Will it break up the UK? We take a look at six key questions following the UK’s shock exit from the EU Brexit: Highlights of European Parliament debate in Brussels BBC News | Europe | … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: After #Brexit A roundup…

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The World Changed Overnight  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte The European Union is now to be written as a postscript. Thanks to British voters, who were given an extremely rare chance to have a say on one of the biggest issues affecting their lives, who were allowed a rare vote on the fate of globalization and … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths…”Murder overshadows Brexit referendum campaign…

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Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths  Boing Boing by Andrea James Austrian designer Moriz Büsing created this grim interactive map of migrant and refugee deaths on the way to Europe, or trying to stay in Europe; over 32,000 deaths in 15 years Europe migrant crisis: Charity rejects EU funds over migration policy  BBC News | … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Europe’s economic strategy from 2008 to today…

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Timeline of a crisis: Europe’s economic strategy from 2008 to today EurActiv.com by Aymone Lamborelle, Jorge Valero, Laura Fernández Álvarez At the outset of the economic crisis in 2008, the EU mirrored the rescue packages seen in the US and elsewhere. In total, more than €1.6 trillion was used to save the banks and €200 billion … Read more

#Karadzic gets 40 years of jail, yet another happy moment due to justice found abroad…

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Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N. judges who found him found guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, as well as on nine other war crimes charges Two Belgian ministers offered to resign over bomb suspect EurActiv.com … Read more

EU-Turkey summit. Bowing down to increasing tyranny because of the refugee crisis?

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Turkey faces criticism on press freedom at EU summit Turkey has faced criticism from EU officials and politicians over the seizure of the Zaman media group at a Brussels summit as part of efforts to implement a joint action plan on illegal migrants, while critics accuse the EU of turning a blind eye to Turkey’s worsening … Read more

Quite an interesting solution to #RefugeeCrisis: “Don’t come to Europe”- Eurosphere agenda

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Tusk warns refugees away from Europe EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev Speaking in Athens on Thursday (3 March), Council President Donald made a pathetic appeal to ‘economic’ migrants not to come to Europe. EU asylum seekers ‘doubled in 2015’ BBC News | Europe | World Edition The number of people seeking asylum in the European Union in 2015 … Read more

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Hoax map’ fights migrant myths BBC News | Europe | World Edition Online map highlights false stories and rumours about migrants in Germany. Press conference: DiEM25 launched by Yanis Varoufakis and Srecko Horvat open Democracy News Analysis – by Srećko Horvat and Yanis Varoufakis The Democracy in Europe Movement 25 was launched by Yanis Varoufakis at the Volksbühne in Berlin … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Footballers in Greece stage a sit-in to protest rising migrant deaths…

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Footballers stage migrants protest  BBC News | Europe | World Edition Footballers in Greece stage a sit-in protest at the start of a game over the death toll of migrants trying to reach the country. Making money out of the migrant crisis  BBC News | Europe | World Edition The business making money out of the migrant … Read more